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Sylvia-
First a few questions to help us better diagnose whether this is a
hardware of software issue:
Does the DVD mount? Meaning will it show up on the desktop?
Can you read and write to other discs that you put in?
Do you get any kind of error message?
Can you launch DVD player manually and play a DVD?
Check your CD and DVD system preference pane to change what you want
your Mac to do when you insert a DVD.
I'd also run the general system maintenance utilities such as
repairing disk permissions, running Onyx or a similar utility to
clean out your system
If you have 10.4 then regardless of whether or not it solves your DVD
issue I'd say go ahead and install as it offers significant
improvements over your current OS. However if you're having problems
with your DVD drive [meaning it's a hardware instead of a software
issue] then you may want to hold off since obviously you'll be using
the drive to install 10.4 and would have to have hiccup or something
happen mid-install.
Regardless of what you do, make sure you have a full backup of your
computer before installing an OS upgrade. If for whatever reasons
something strange happens you'd hate to loose the data. I had a
computer hiccup on me about a year ago while installing 10.4 and
while we were able to get everything up and running I had to do a
complete erase and install to do it. Thankfully, we made a backup
before we started and didn't loose any data.
--
Katie Floyd
[email removed]
On Dec 26, 2006, at 12:20 PM, Sylvia Tucker wrote:
] DVD player will not launch and play movies on my powerbook. I'm not
] sure
] when it stopped working. I just threw in a movie and noticed it.
] Powerbook PC G4, MAC OS X 10.3.9, DVD player is 3.1.1 and drive is not
] a superdrive.
] Should I bit the bullet and install mac OS X 10.4? I bought it, but
] have not installed it yet.
] sylvia
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